The Penn's Grove record., 1887-12-17

agent BY PRESIDENT Cleveland, and as
signed to duty in Southeast Missouri.
On the 10th, according to q telegram
from Cairo, Illinois, as he was investi-
eating pension matters at La Forge,
Missouri, he was seized by q mob and
severely beaten, but for what reason ia
not known.
Samuel and John Calson
were struck by a train near Punxsu-
tawney, Penna., on the evening OF the
18th, and killed. :.
"A great freshet has beeh caused In
the rivers of the Acadia mining dis
trict of Nova Scotia by heavy rains
during the past "a hours. Bridges have
been swept away and dwellings dam
aged. Two men riding on the high
way near Great Village were caught In
the torrent and swept down the road
for a mile, when they saved themselves
by clutchlng at some bushes.
Two freight trains collided on the
New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio
Railroad in Akron, Ohio, on the even
ing Of the 18th. The collision occurred
on a high embankment, and men and
cars were hurled forty feet downward.
Engineer Michael Cassidy and Brake
man Michael keihl were fatally in
jured. A number of cars were demol-
ished, the loss being estimated at $685.
600.
"A despatch from Brooklyn says
That as an engine and six dirt Cars
were crossing the trestlework over
Gowanus Bay, between T~hirty-ffth
and Thirty-sixth streets, on the MORN
ing Of the 18th, the structure gave
way, and the cars, upon which we've
q number Of w0rkmen, were thrown
into the water. Four OF tho men were
badly bruised, but all escaped alive.
"A fire occurred in the new four
story fat house at 9Th avenue and
128th street, New York, on the after
noon Of the 18th, and practically ruined
the building and the furniture OF the
eleven families occupying it. The loss
to the tenants Is placed at about $780,
0OO. There were many narrow escapes
from s~uffocation.
The municipal election in Boston
was held on the 18th and brought out
5l,4S7 votes, the largest number in any
local election since 1883. O,Brien,
Democrat, was reelected Mayor, he
receiving 26,621 votes to "a, 866 foi
Hart, Republican and Independent.
"The Labor vote failed to material
ize." The Republicans gained two
Aldermen, the Board standing eight
Republicans to four Democrats. Com
mon Council stands 43 Democrats to
70 Republicans, the same as last year.
License was carried by a majority Of
1888. Local elections were also held
l n Lowell, Salem, Lynn. Worcester
and Waterbury. ALL were carried by
the Republicans, and all voted for Ii,
cense. The local election in Charles
ton, South Carolina, on the 18th, re-
suited in the ucces of the Demo-
cratic ticket. The official returns Of
the vote of Dakota on division show
that In North Dakota the majority
against division is exactly ten thous-
and; in South Dakota the majority for
division is 1898.
Mrs. Sarah Hicks, a school teache,
In Brooklyn, committed suicide on the
18th.
-Ewell Lauter was fatally shot
while resisting arrest, by a deputy
marshal named Cunningham, In VIII
Jamestown, Kentucky, on the Afternoon.
of the 18th. Edward Hoag, of Denver,
Colorado, went to Owensburg, Ken
lucky. two months ago to marry Miss
Ella Brown. Two days bsfore the
ceremony Hoag disappeared mystic
riously. On the 18th his remains were
found four miles from the town. HI
had over $500 in his possession when
last seen, and it is thought he wal
murdered for his money. In q saloon
in Wallace, Kansas, on the evening OF
the 18th. an itinerant sewing machine
member attempted to make tom
Dunn, a local ''tough," dance. Dunn
refused to dance, when the sewing
machine man commenced firing his re-
vOlver. Dunn then shot him dead.
Dunn was arrested, but allowed the
liberty OF streets pending the Coroner.
inquest. Herman Hochkoch was muir.
dered at the Yenk Hotel in Milwau-
kee, Wisconsin, early on the morning.
of the 18th. He was a railway laborei
and arrived there on the 18th, having
about $100. Robbery is supposed to
nave bsen the motive of the crime. a
despatch from Corona, Colorado, says
Vorce, the desperate. was not wounded,
and after killing Hollingsworth
mounted his horee and escaped.
Henry S. Ives, Of the defunct
banking firm of II. S. Ives & Co., was
arrested in New York, on the 18th, on
d warrant, which was issued on a
charge of grand larceny made by julius
Dexter, President of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton and Dayton Railroad. He
was held in $4,000 bail for examine
tion. Ives said he was not guilty.
Henry Fawcett and his wife. liv-
ing near Point Pleasant, West VIr.
ginia, went to church on the 18th,
leaving their three children, the eldest
being but five years old, locked up al
home. When the parents returned they
found the house in ashes and the chill.
iren burned to death.
While handling o supposed un-
loaded gun, on the 18th, William
Young, OF Matinicus Island, Name,
shot and fatally wounded his brother
in-law, George G.. Hunt. Samuel Shoe
naker was crushed to death by q fall
II earth at the East Harrisburg Brick
Works. in Harrisburg, Pa, on the 18th.
The canning and packing mills of the
Lealn Powder Works,a few miles from
W~ilkesbarre, were blown up On the af-
lerno0n Of the 18th. Louis Learch, an
old employee, vas fatally injured.